Patch Notes for version 2.02

This patch is a large collection of bug fixes, stability updates and balance adjustments. A few
new additions were added into the game as well per player feedback.
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- New: A command called whois has been added in. Lets you view information about your fellow players
- Bug Fix: Items should no longer show a prototype flag instead of the joinself flag.
- Bug Fix: The stance option has been removed from prompt since we no longer use stances.
- Bug Fix: Whois should now show the targets race, not yours
- New: When you level, info will now say which class you have leveled.
- Adjustment: Identify will now show the name of the object as well as the keywords
- Adjustment: Journal current/completed now shows the area name in the list.
- Bug Fix: Hex should no longer give positive magic evasion
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with stun timers
- Adjustment: Health/Mana/Stamina/Poisons now tick more frequently.
- New: Regen has been added in for clerics at level 75
- New: Clarity has been added in for Psions at level 72
- New: Invigorate has been added in for Shamans at level 72
- Adjustment: Group invite level range has been set to the exp range. +/- 10 levels
- Adjustment: Spirit of Fire has been removed, Shamans now have fireshield as the same level
- Adjustment: Spirit of the Bear has been renamed Essence of the Bear
- Adjustment: Trolls natural hp regen has been reduced to two times the normal rate instead of five
- New: Orcs now regenerate stamina twice as fast as other races.
- Adjustment: Enhanced Hit now directly adds to your accuracy
- Adjustment: Enhanced Damage 1/2/3 have had their attack bonus lowered from 20% to 10%
- Adjustment: Base spell damage for high level spells has been increased slightly
- Adjustment: Enhanced Reflexes will be able to skillup whenever you use the skill now.
- Bug Fix: Quitting while on a mission should now give you the same wait time as rejecting a mission.
- Adjustment: Regen is now "Rejuvenate"
- Adjustment: Show quest will now show you the minimum or maximum level if you do not meet the requirements.
- Bug Fix: Mobs that die from venom should now properly award the player exp.
- Adjustment: Poison/incinerate/venom/drowfire/pox damage has been lowered
- Adjustment: Elemental shield spells now only reduce the elemental damage of their type.
- Adjustment: Elemental shield spells damage reduction has been increased.
- Adjustment: Non-elemental shield spells have had their damage reduction reduced a bit.
- Bug Fix: You will no longer be able to use tithe if you are unclanned
- Adjustment: Tithe will no longer show up in stats unless you are clanned
- Adjustment: Personal tithe is now how much tithe you have personally earned for your clan.
- Adjustment: Mental Drain and Cerebral Syphon have had their damage/drain calculations updated.
- Bug Fix: Mobs using lure should no longer cause the world to explode.
- Bug Fix: Mobs should be able to use their skills more than one time now
- Adjustment: Mobs with a melee class should now use the correct skills for their class
- Adjustment: Mobs that cast magic have had their magic adjusted again. Be wary of those wizards.
- Bug Fix: Changing your class while on a mission or quest will end it and give you the reject penalty.
- Adjustment: Second Attack and Third attack should level up more frequently
- Adjustment: Iron Grip and Aggressor should level up more frequently
- Bug Fix: Fast healing no longer has two chances to go off during combat.
- Adjustment: Psychic Healing has been buffed.
- webimm.html should now auto-update correctly for the site.
- Bug Fix: Players should receive their stat bonus for magic evasion now.
- Adjustment: Charisma should now have more of an affect on aggressive mobs.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with sneaky mobs causing an apocalypse.
- Bug Fix: Charm Person should no longer have an absurd global wait attached to it
- Adjustment: Mages and Necromancers now receive Enhanced Magic Damage at levels 32 and 55 respectively
- Adjustment: Magic Damage and Magic Defense formules have been adjusted
- Adjustment: Fumble now always drops weapons to the inventory instead of the ground.
- Bug Fix: Mission and Quest mobs over level 90 are no longer in god-mode
- Adjustment: Fumble no longer drops random inventory items to the ground.
- Bug Fix: Mobs should no longer weapon bash without a weapon
- Bug Fix: Sleeping targets now take double damage from ambush.
- Adjustment: Enervating Strike and Crippling strike now have messages to tell you when the additional affect lands
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that let you use the strike combat arts without practicing them.
- Adjustment: Sacrifice now only gives you hp/mana/stamina however it now scales with level
- Adjustment: Acid Breath will no longer disintegrate bags
- Adjustment: You will now have the adrenaline timer when trying to invoke or recall after pvp combat.
- Adjustment: The adrenaline timer has been lowered across the board
- Adjustment: The level range of mobs available for missions/quests has been lowered.
- Adjustment: Level 100+ Mission and Quest mobs should have less health now.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with mobs casting despair.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with steal having a very low success rate
- Adjustment: Spell damage formulas have been rewritten from the ground up
- Adjustment: Monk punches no longer have a global wait, however they share a longer than normal cooldown
- Bladepalm and flurry have been removed
- Adjustment: Rogue Skills have had their damage formules redone
- Adjustment: Rogues now have stealth arts which boosts their various damage skills.
- Adjustment: Combat Arts and Martial Arts have had their damage formulas rewritten
- Adjustment: Skill and spell damage from higher level mobs should be a bit more consistent
- Adjustment: Skill/spell cooldown messages will now show second or seconds depending on how much time is left.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with woodcraft having a very low success rate
- Adjustment: The WANTED status in the who list will now always appear before any other flags.
- Adjustment: You can now only set your wimpy to a maximum of 20% of your max health.
- Adjustment: Changing your class will now auto set your wimpy to 10% of your hp.
- Bug Fix: Finishing Strike should have a higher success rate now. Except for Torin.
- Adjustment: You can no longer use bind wounds in combat. Sorry guys
- Adjustment: Follow no longer has a level limitation on it.
- Adjustment: Grouping no longer has a level limitation on it for inviting, exp still has a limit.
- Adjustment: Base exp from killing mobs has been increased.
- Adjustment: Magic Defense for mobs over level 50 has been lowered
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with Missile Weapons accuracy
- Adjustment: Missile Weapons damage now goes up with skill level
- Enhancement: Score now shows your physical/magical critical hit rate.
- Adjustment: The duration of blindness has been lowered
- Adjustment: The blindness effect on gouge was also lowered.
- Adjustment: The blindness spell now reduces accuracy instead of dex. (gouge already reduced accuracy)
- Adjustment: Blindness now lowers evasion as well
- Bug Fix: Blackguard drain skills now have a blind check.
- Adjustment: Lowered the cooldown on the first tier of spells for casters
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where players could use steal/skin without practicing them.
- Bug Fix: Switching your primary class should now set your current and modded hp/mana/stamina correctly.
- New: The 'skills' command now has the stamania cost next the skill name.
- New: Remove Curse spell now works on items in inventory, removing their 'no drop' flag.
- Bug Fix: Expmode should now have the correct levels set for using it.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where Cyclone wasn't able to level up properly
- Bug Fix: Players and NPCs can't flee anymore when tripped/stunned
- Adjustment: Pray can now level up when you get coins instead of just the buff
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with the PKILL restriction messages
- Adjustment: Wanted status no longer shows up on who list. List wanted players with the wanted command.
- Adjustment: Clans now have 2-5 character tags for the who list that will display instead of the name.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the level requirement on exchange and lowered the cost to 100 from 250
- Bug Fix: When clanned and using recall, it will no longer say that your leader has forsaken you.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that wouldn't let you remove a secondary class after setting it.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where the info message when leveling up would show both prime/second class
- Adjustment: You will no longer lose experience when recall fails.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that made NPCs unable to physically crit. Sorry guys
- Adjustment: Daggers, Whips and claws have had their accuracy value raised in tableval.
- Bug Fix: When gaining access to ambush via secondary class, the cost will now scale appropriately
- Bug Fix: The skills command now shows the updated value for ambush.
- Bug Fix: Certain mprogs will now bypass blindness so that they are able to function.
- Adjustment: Decreased the level range of quest/mission mobs
- Adjustment: The first three healing spells for cle/dru/sha have had the level requirements lowered.
- Bug Fix: Champions/Legends class should no longer appear a different colour on the who list after classchange.
- Adjustment: Minor healing has had it's potency increased slightly - Bug Fix: Necromancers have lost refresh and shamans have gained it in return
- Adjustment: Increased base spell success rate
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where earthquake was doing much higher damage than intended
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where mobs were bypassing weapon delays and using the default instead.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with Ballad of Healing and Carol of Restoration not scaling properly with song level.
- Adjustment: Cooldown on ballad of healing/carol of restoration has been increased
- Adjustment: Shield bash damage has been lowered a bit to fit in with the new standards.
- Adjustment: Shield block now fully nullifies the damage from a hit instead of cutting it in half.
- Adjustment: NPC critical hit rate should now scale with their level.
- Adjustment: The experience reward from quests has been increased significantly
- Adjustment: Some mobs are now immune to disarm
- New: Added in the disarm immunity for mobiles
- Adjustment: You can now kick while mounted.
- New: Ambush no longer has a WAIT_STATE after it, which means you can go directly into your next skill.
- New: Additional body parts should fall when killing mobs, depending on the mob type (tail, wing, horn)
- Bug Fix: Resolved a trust issue in cedit to use L_IMP instead of 258.
- Bug Fix: Resolved some file reading functions to use int instead of char
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that made mounted attacks very rare.
- Adjustment: Warriors have received a boost to their base dexterity
- Adjustment: Blackguards have received a boost to their base dexterity
- Adjustment: Shamans have received a boost to their base dexterity
- Adjustment: Monks have received a boost to their base agility
- Adjustment: Rogues have received a minor boost to their base agi/cha
- Adjustment: Mages have received a minor boost to their base dex/wis
- Adjustment: Psionisists have received a minor boost to their base agi/cha
- Adjustment: Druids have received a minor boost to their base con/agi
- New:: Added a config option to show item levels with the equipment command
- New: Blackguards now have shield bash.
- Adjustment: Shields will now appear right below your wielded weapon.
- Bug Fix: Cureamount was previously displayed in config as cureamt. It should now display properly.
- Adjustment: Increased the minimum chance for shield block
- Adjustment: Artifactor prices for renaming/indestructing objects have been lowered.
- Adjustment: Elemental strikes from weapons should now deal higher damage.
- Enhancement: Increased the maximum damage for ambush.
- Enhancement: Ambush now directly does your first round of attacks after using it. It -is- an ambush after all.
- Enhancement: Can now use 'waygate to ' in addition of the area number
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with monk cooldowns
- Enhancement: Healing spells have had their global wait time cut in half
- Bug Fix: The cooldown on refresh should work properly now.
- Enhancement: Refresh will now tell you how much stamina you restored if you have cure amount on.
- Adjustment: Magic Defense for NPCs has been lowered across the board.
- Enhancement: 2 new options for your prompt, see HELP PROMPT
- Adjustment: Base spell damage has been increased
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with herblore going above the max rank.
- Bug Fix: When classchanging, you should no longer keep on items that you can't see.
- Adjustment: Spells and Skills now have scaling costs
- Adjustment: Hex has had it's duration lowered
- Adjustment: Entangle now lowers the victims evasion/accuracy
- Adjustment: The cleric spells Deific Vengeance and Sacred Nova have had their levels swapped.
- New: Blackguard drain skills now use the new skill dark arts for their damage.
- Adjustment: The minimum level for Magical Dexterity has been lowered to 3.
- Adjustment: You can now practice at level 2
- Adjustment: The first combat spell/skill for all classes has been lowered to 2.
- Adjustment: Base chance for shield bash has been increased.
- Adjustment: Shield bash damage now increases based on your shield bash skill level.
- Adjustment: Despair now only lasts 1 minute. This way you can use it more frequently.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with mobs ganging up on players constantly. It shouldn't happen quite so often now.
- New: A dispel magic immunity has been added to mobiles
- Bug Fix: Ambush should no longer be able to instant kill mobs much higher than the player.
- Bug Fix: Elegy of Disorientation no longer stops combat on mobs more than 10 levels above the player.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that prevented you from using wards even after you practiced it.
- Bug Fix: Rake Eyes blind duration has been lowered.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with mobify and prompts
- Bug Fix: Using the help command will no longer break hide.
- Bug Fix: Advance will now set highest level properly.
- Bug Fix: Award will now give exp towards AP properly
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue that kept you in the expmode: AP when switching to another class at 90-99
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with gravebind having a low success rate
- Adjustment: Mobs that are casters no longer have access to second/third attack
- Adjustment: Only mobs that are dexterity based classes will have access to third attack
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where mobs could cast in no_magic rooms
- Adjustment: Healing magic calculations have been rewritten
- New: A new healing spell called Major Healing has been added to the healing lineup
- Adjustment: The required levels for various healing spells have been adjusted
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where Carol of Restoration and Ballad of healing had an extremely high mana cost
- Adjustment: Healing magic mana costs have been increased. The higher tiers more than the lower
- Adjustment: Necromancers now have access to the True Sight spell to keep in line with the other arcane casters
- Adjustment: Mount damage has been increased slightly
- Adjustment: Paladins now receive a slight melee damage boost to go along with other melees
- Bug Fix: The NPC healer commands "light" and "heal" have been fixed. They should work now.
- Bug Fix: Added a missing space in the spell "Lightning Bolt"
- Adjustment: Spirit Strength now has a minimum strength value similar to other strength spells.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where you stayed mounted after classchanging
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue with mount damage being unnaturally high.
- Adjustment: Holy Strength now has a minimum strength value similar to other strength spells.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where you were able to dodge when you didn't have access to the skill
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where you were able to shield bash when you didn't have access to the skill.
- Bug Fix: NPCs that aren't a wraith or a pixie should no longer sidestep/swoop
- You now have to type RECALL in full to prevent accidental uses.
- Enhancement: Rage and Adrenaline Rush can now go up in skill even if you are already affected by it.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where sonic boom and mind maze would only work if you practiced them twice.
- Bug Fix: Resolved an issue where the spell "hands of healing" wasn't setting the proper cooldown time.
- Bug Fix: You should no longer be able to hide without practicing the skill.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the equipment command so that it shows "about" for the cloak slot instead of body.
- Bug Fix: Personal tithe should now accurately show your contribution to the clan tithe
- Adjustment: Clan tithe now accrues at a faster rate but also decays faster
- Adjustment: The maximum tithe a clan can have is capped at 2m
- Adjustment: The minimum purchase for luck is 1000.

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